Documents the development of diagnostic assessment procedures for students with a specific learning disability. Findings and recommendations point to the need for early identification of special-needs students and the provision of support programs to develop their lifelong learning skills. (JOW)

Provides a range of common-sense strategies for dealing with adult students with behavioral difficulties: teaching appropriate behavior, dealing with aggression, setting boundaries, and managing defensiveness. Indicates that solutions lie not just in the classroom but at the college, classroom management, and person-to-person levels. (JOW)

Discusses acquired brain injury (ABI), a hidden disability often caused by traffic accidents. Provides a list of strategies for the adult classroom and information sources. (JOW)

Presents the outcomes of a project from the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program, outlines language needs in information technology courses, and discusses how ESOL teachers can meet those needs. (JOW)

family literacy, and workplace sites) for a year or more to examine their experiences of learning and change. Each program was aimed at enhancing participants? English language fluency, content knowledge, and effectiveness as students, parents, and/or workers. The purpose of this study was to better understand how these adults experienced learning…

This bibliography encompasses a broad definition of multiculturalism, including issues of race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, home language, social class, sexual orientation, and religion.

This Study Circle guide was created by the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) as part of the Practitioner Dissemination and Research Network (PDRN). The guide is part of NCSALL's effort to help connect research and practice in the field of adult basic education and adult literacy. The purpose of the study circle…

This issue focuses on workplace education and includes the following articles: "After the Grant Is Over" (Connie Nelson); "Around to Stay" (Shirley Penn and Mary Zorn); "A Conversation with FOB: What Benefits Does Workplace Ed Offer the Provider?"; "Reading Work" (Tracy Defoe and Sue Folinsbee); "Much More than ABE" (Don Block and Lori…

The United States is viewed by many as a country where immigrants can enjoy freedom and economic prosperity, and, recently,more of these newcomers are settling in the state of Tennessee. The 2000 United States Census reveals that 4.8 percent of Tennessee residents live in households where the primary language spoken is not English. That is an…

Literacy across Cultures, the journal of the Foreign Language Literacy Special Interest Group, a special interest group formed within the Japan Association for Language Teaching, seeks to network people, ideas, theory, practice, and experiences that can help lead to a better understanding of foreign language literacy. This issue contains six…

"Equipped for the Future" ("EFF") Standards have been developed to answer a complex question: What do adults need to know and be able to do in order to carry out their roles and responsibilities as workers, parents and family members, and citizens and community members? It is widely recognized that the demands of adult life changed dramatically in…

This volume contains the following articles: "Orthography and Identity in Cameroon" (Steven Bird); "Literacy Evaluation Tool" (Becky Feldpausch, Jean Nichols, Robin Rempel); "Kenyang Literacy Program" (Tanyi Eyong Mbuagbaw); "Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): A Brief Overview" (Ian Mowatt); "Adaptation of the Multi-Strategy Method for the Far North…

Shows that literacy practices have a key role in the new workplace that is different from the past, and that these developments have enormous implications for literacy and literacy learners. Emphasizes the changes in the way literacy tasks are located or situated in work, producing changes in the relations of literacy in so-called high performance…

Explores two forms of workplace literacies that served as instruments of management in a community mental health boarding home established for middle-aged women, and summarizes key issues that emerged from analysis of textual ethnography. Examines the record of textual mediation of workers and residents in an extensive, anecdotal workplace text…

Through analysis of teacher talk and student talk in an adult numeracy class, demonstrates how cultural assumptions implicit in numeracy teaching are not made explicit to students. Situated in an English-as-a-Second-Language context, analysis demonstrates how these assumptions are embedded in linguistic choices that present particular kinds of…